Editorials

In one sense, each person who turns to Christian Science and applies it even in the slightest degree is a practitioner, in so far as he is practicing in accord with Principle. To speak in another way, however, there is but one practitioner, God or divine Mind, for infinite intelligence is all that can produce and maintain true practice.

It is a pity that the word diplomacy, like the word criticism, has been endowed with a popular meaning which is really a travesty of its true sense. When Sir Henry Wotton half humorously inscribed in a friend's album the definition of an ambassador as a man sent abroad to lie for his country, he gave an inflection to the word diplomacy from which it has scarcely recovered.

In its expression of infinite Principle, Christian Science is not limited to any set form of words, for no human formula can state the complete meaning of Truth and its manifestation. Mrs.

Christian tradition, in almost its earliest inception, seized upon the Johannine image of Christ Jesus as the Good Shepherd, and has treasured the picture ever since. To the early church the imagery of the Fourth Gospel must have conveyed a deeper significance than it could to later ages.

In the whole course of living, what is true is all that ever really counts. Actual intelligence is conscious only of good.

It is a pity that the word salvation has got narrowed down to so purely theological a meaning that it has almost lost the broader sense of general safety which it inherits from its Latin ancestor. If this were not the case, if it had not acquired a meaning of salvation from future punishment, the world would understand more easily the wide definition give to it by Mrs.

For many years Christian Science has explained how the suppositional mortal mind claims to be general and to suggest itself as real to all in similar ways. Whatever argument of destructiveness this illusory carnal mind would claim to suggest to one, it would also claim to be able to suggest to others.

There is no word, in perhaps any language, which has been used with so loose a definition as love. This definition has been stretched between divinity and sensuality, with the result that the author of the Fourth Gospel, a man most careful of definitions, was driven to contrast two Greek words, in a famous passage, in order to make his meaning entirely clear, whilst Tyndale, breaking away from Wycliffe, substituted lovers for friends in his translation of Luke, "And ye schalbe betrayed of youre fathers and mothers, and youre bretheren, and kynsmen, and lovers, and some of you shall they put to deeth," only to be broken away from in turn, by Cranmer and the revisers, in a return to friends.

A SINGLE right motive will take a man triumphantly through a seeming chaos of wrong conditions. This the student of Christian Science learns amid the worst suggestions of evil.

THAT famous Austro-Jewish philosopher, Dr. Max Nordau, who has been likened to Job and Hosea, has been preaching, once more, the necessity for the state to accept and conform to the morality of the citizen.